Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hacking an ebuild
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:41:51
Message-Id: 200706201336.22355.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] hacking an ebuild by "Abraham Marín Pérez"
1 On Wednesday 20 June 2007 13:29:56 Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:
2 > >> Create a user overlay in the usual place - $PORTDIR/local/
3 > >> Copy the ebuild there as normal
4 > >> modify KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64
5 > >> Check that all the dependencies have amd64 ebuilds as well
6 > >> emerge jffnms and see what happens
7 > >
8 > > What? Why? Just add 'net-analyzer/jffnms ~x86'
9 > > to /etc/portage/package.keywords? No matter what the KEYWORDS of an
10 > > ebuild are (or aren't) they can be accepted by a proper entry in
11 > > package.keywords (** if empty)...
12 >
13 > I think the problem here is that the package is masked, not marked as
14 > unstable; that's the reason to create a new ebuild not affected by the
15 > general portage.mask... Am I right?
16
17 No. First of all it's not masked. Secondly if it was masked it could be
18 unmasked through /etc/portage/package.unmask...
19
20 --
21 Bo Andresen

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